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Top 10 Cities of the Year 100 Rome 450,000 Luoyang, China 420,000 Seleucia,Iraq 250,000 Alexandria 250,000 Antioch, 150,000 Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka 130,000 Peshawar, Pakistan 120,000 Carthage 100,000 Suzhou, China 95,000 Smyrna, 90,000
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Top 10 Cities of the Year 1000 Population Cordova, Spain 450,000 Kaifeng, China 400,000 Constantinople 300,000 Angkor, Cambodia 200,000 Kyoto, Japan 175,000 Cairo, Egypt 135,000 Baghdad, Iraq 125,000 Nishapur, Iran 125,000 Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia 110,000 Patan (Anhilwara), India 100,000
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Top 10 Cities of the Year 1500
Population Beijing, China 672,000 Vijayanagar, India 500,000 Cairo, Egypt 400,000 Hangzhou, China 250,000 Tabriz, Iran 250,000 Constantinople 200,000 Gaur, India 200,000 Paris, France 185,000 Guangzhou, China 150,000 Nanjing, China 147,000
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Top 10 Cities of the Year 1800 Population Beijing, China 1,100,000 London, United Kingdom 861,000 Guangzhou, China 800,000 Edo (Tokyo), Japan 685,000 Istanbul, Turkey 570,000 Paris, France 547,000 Naples, Italy 430,000 Hangzhou, China 387,000 Osaka, Japan 383,000 Kyoto, Japan 377,000
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Top 10 Cities of the Year 1900 London 6,480,000 New York 4,242,000 Paris 3,330,000 Berlin, 2,707,000 Chicago 1,717,000 Vienna, Austria 1,698,000 Tokyo, Japan 1,497,000 St. Petersburg, Russia 1,439,000 Manchester, UK 1,435,000 Philadelphia 1,418,000
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Top 10 Cities of the Year 1950 New York 12,463,000 London 8,860,000 Tokyo, Japan 7,000,000 Paris, France 5,900,000 Shanghai, China 5,406,000 Moscow 5,100,000 Buenos Aires 5,000,000 Chicago 4,906,000 Ruhr, Germany 4,900,000 Kolkata, India 4,800,000
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10 Cities of the Year 2010
Shanghai 13,839,900 Mumbai 13,830,884 Karachi 12,991,000 Delhi 12,565,901 Istanbul 11,372,613 Sao Paulo 11,037,593 Moscow 10,508,971 Seoul 10,464,051 Beijing 10,123,00 Mexico City 8,841,916
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